Thursday, November 28, 2013

Jane Kean, best known for her role as Trixie, the
long-suffering wife of Ed Norton on the 1960s TV revival of "The
Honeymooners" with Jackie Gleason and Art Carney, has died. She was 90.

Kean, a resident of Toluca Lake, died Tuesday at
Providence St. Joseph Medical Center in Burbank of complications from a fall.
Her niece, Deidre Wolpert, confirmed her death.

Although she played diverse roles during a career
spanning more than four decades, including performing at London's Palladium
before moving to Broadway, Kean said her role in "The Honeymooners"
was the character that most people remembered.

"There's something about the show -- people relate
to it," Kean said in a 1991 interview with The Times. "People
believed the show was real, and that we really were the characters we
played."

"The Honeymooners," which started as a sketch
on "The Jackie Gleason Show" in the early 1950s, starred Gleason as
Ralph Kramden, a struggling New York bus driver who lived in a cramped
apartment with his wife Alice (Audrey Meadows). Carney played Norton, Kramden's
dim-witted neighbor and best friend who was married to Trixie (originally
played by Joyce Randolph), who was Alice's best friend.

Kean first started working with Gleason in the 1940s,
when they were both on the vaudeville circuit. They also appeared in several
stage productions in the 1950s.

She joined the cast of "The Honeymooners" in
1966 as Trixie when Gleason moved to Miami Beach for another version of
"The Jackie Gleason Show," where he revived "The
Honeymooners" for new sketches that reunited him with Carney. Sheila
MacRae took on the role of Alice.

Those "Honeymooners" segments expanded to an
hour and were crafted as musical comedies, with several original songs within
each installment. The cast also appeared in 1976 for an ABC special, "The
Honeymooners -- The Second Honeymoon."

Born April 10, 1923, in Hartford, Conn., Kean first
started working professionally in the 1940s on stage. She appeared in starring
roles on Broadway in the 1950s in shows such as "The Pajama Game" and
"Will Success Spoil Rock Hunter?" in which she replaced Jayne
Mansfield.

During the 1950s, she also teamed up with her sister
Betty for a popular nightclub act that blended singing, dance and comedy. The
sisters performed on "The Ed Sullivan Show" and had a successful run
at the London Palladium.

In the 1980s, Kean performed at colleges, on cruise
ships, at dinner theaters and what she called Florida's "condo
circuit." She wrote and performed in a two-woman musical, "We,"
at the Forum Theater in Yorba Linda in 1991. The project, which also starred
Barbara Perry, featured comedy and musical numbers from numerous Broadway shows
the two women had appeared in.

Kean performed a tribute to Gleason during the show
titled, "How Sweet It Was."

Kean’s first marriage, to Richard Linkroum, ended in
divorce. She later married her manager, Joe Hecht. He died in 2006. Her sister
Betty died in 1986.

Besides Wolpert, Betty Kean's daughter, Jane Kean is
survived by Wolpert's husband and two children, along with a stepson, Joseph
Hecht Jr., and his son.

Wednesday, November 27, 2013

Italian American actor Tony Musante died November 26,
2013 at Lenox Hill Hospital in New York City due to complications following surgery.
He was 77. Antonio Peter Musante, Jr. was born on June 30, 1936 in Bridgeport,
Connecticut. He attended Oberlin College and Northwestern University.

Musante acted in numerous feature films, in the United
States and elsewhere, including Italy. Among his body of work are the
television series ‘Toma’ (1973-1974) (predecessor to ‘Baretta’ with Robert
Blake) and the soap opera ‘As The World Turns’, and the 1975 Broadway play, ‘P.
S. Your Cat Is Dead!’, for which he was nominated for a Drama Desk Award. He
was nominated for an Emmy Award for his work in a 1975 episode of ‘Medical
Center, A Quality of Mercy’. Musante also played Antonio "Nino"
Schibetta, a feared Mafia boss and the Italian gang leader inside of Emerald
City during the first season of the HBO critically acclaimed television series ‘Oz’.
He’s known by Spaghetti western fans for his portrayal of Paco Roman alongside
Franco Nero in the 1968 film “The Mercenary”.

Marcello Gatti dies at the age of 89 years, one of the
most important directors of Italian photography

Marcello Gatti has died, he photographed Brando and the
Battle of Algiers

In the course of his long career the cinematographer won
5 Silver Ribbons, photographed 2 films

nominated for an Oscar (in addition to
Pontecorvo 's masterpiece, even The Four Days of Naples Nanny Loy) and another
Palme d'Or at Cannes (Chroniques des années de braise), worked with among
others with Polanski, and Lizzani Cosmatos. In TV he did Moses with Burt
Lancaster, various series of the Octopus, the first drama of Morandi and then,
behind the 'Secret Mirror'

(first Italian candid camera), he was there to film .

The film he is often remembered for is that The Battle of
Algiers (1966), which earned the Golden Lion in Venice and 3 Oscar nominations
which stood out for the grainy photography and documentary that Gatti had
already begun to develop in The Four days of Naples (1962) Nanni Loy, which was
also nominated for an Oscar. With Pontecorvo he also turned outQueimada

(helping to bring
Marlon Brando on the set after an argument with the director) and Ogro .

After the success of the Battle of Algiers Roman Polanski
entrusts his movie Italian What? (1972; What ?) With Mastroianni. And Mohammed
Lakhdar - Hamina him back to Algeria to turn Chroniques des années de braise
Palme d'Or at Cannes in 1975.

Among the more than 150 films we can also mention the
stage of genre cinema, from 'cop': Mark il poliziotto e La polizia ha le mani
legateMark; thriller: The Black Belly of the Tarantula comedies: Mr. Robinson,
Bluff history scams and crooks and Three tigers against three tigers.

Of the 5 Silver Ribbons obtained two overcame them even
in the same year, in 1970, winning the award in both the black and white
category for Giannarelli of the Sierra Maestra, which in that color for
Anonymous Venetian by Enrico Maria Salerno.

Of his television work remain Mirror Secret Nanni Loy;
dramas with Gianni Morandi Want to sing, and the fifth and sixth series of The
Octopus detective with the poignant farewell Vittorio Mezzogiorno; insurance on
the death of Charles Lizzani and Moses Burt Lancaster.

Always close to the ideals of the left Gatti was arrested
in 1943 for having defaced a portrait of Mussolini on the walls of Cinecittà
being sentenced to five years in prison, then turned into exile, and in 1968
occupied the Experimental Center of Cinematography with students and other
characters of Italian cinema as Bellocchio and Bertolucci. It has long been
president of the Association of Italian directors of photography (AIC).

Monday, November 25, 2013

ELKE Neidhardt, the actress turned opera visionary who
went on to become the first director to stage Richard Wagner's Ring Cycle in
Australia, died yesterday, aged 72.

The German-born actress and director appeared in the
television series Skippy and 1973 film Alvin Purple early in her career, but
Neidhardt was most celebrated for directing the 2004 production of Ring Cycle.

The Adelaide production was the first Australian
adaptation of the opera, and it was praised by critics around the world.

Three years earlier she had directed another Wagner
opera, Parsifal, to similar fanfare.

Fellow director Noel Staunton, who worked alongside
Neidhardt and had been a friend for many years, said her passing was a loss for
opera in Australia.

"She had an enormous contribution to opera in
Australia, and left it with some great productions," Staunton said.
"In the opera world, she was a big influence. She will be sadly
missed." Neidhardt recently had an operation after the discovery of
several tumours but friends last night said they were uncertain of the cause of
her death.

A graduate of the Stuttgart Drama and Opera School, she
had her first experience directing as an assistant director at Zurich State
Opera before appearing in productions around Europe.

The actress first made her name on Australian screens in
1968 as Anna Steiner in Skippy the Bush Kangaroo, before being appointed in
1977 as resident director at Opera Australia, a position she held for 13 years.

After taking on the directorship at Cologne State Opera,
Neidhardt became well acquainted with Wagner's Ring Cycle, staging the work
there three times. The 16-hour epic is currently being staged by Opera
Australia in Melbourne. She returned to Australia and became the first director
to stage the four-opera work in this country in the State Opera of South
Australia's critically acclaimed production.

Neidhardt, also known as a judge on the ABC's amateur
opera reality show Operatunity, married Australian actor Christopher Muir in
the 1960s.

They had a son, Fabian, but divorced in 1967. Neidhardt
went on to have a 35-year relationship with actor Norman Kaye, who died in 2007.

Sunday, November 24, 2013

Juan Peláez, a regular actor on many Mexican soap operas,
passed away Saturday morning from cancer. The actor's niece, Monica Fernandez,
broke the news on Twitter, revealing that the 64-year-old actor died from a
respiratory failure as a result of the illness. Televisa, for which the actor
worked for many years, also lamented the actor's death. Peláez was best known
for playing Miguel Hidalgo in the historical soap opera "La antorcha
encendida."

Juan Peláez was much loved throughout the Mexican
entertainment industry. Other actors expressed their sadness at losing a great
talent and a great friend via social media. Verónica Castro wrote: "A
great friend and colleague for so long! My dear Juan Peláez, you went to
soon!" She also posted a video from "La Fuerza Inutil" where the
two acted together. Victoria Ruffo also reacted to the actor's death saying
"Farewell.".

Juan Peláez, was the son of spanish refugees. He began
his career in 1970 with the film "Jóvenes de la Zona Rosa," directed
by Alfredo Zacaría. He worked on films such as"Chin Chin El Teporocho, "Keiko En Peligro y and even made an
appearence in007: Licence to Kill. He
acted in telenovelas such as "Cuidado Con El Angel," "Las Tontas
No Van Al Cielo," "Mundo de Fieras" and "Como Dice el
Dicho."

Friday, November 22, 2013

Theater artist and KSFR news director Dan Gerrity died
early Wednesday morning, apparently of a heart attack, the radio station
reported.

Gerrity’s voice was well known to the community station’s
listeners as he often read news reports.

A New Jersey native, Gerrity worked as a writer, director
and actor in theater on the east and west coasts before settling in Santa Fe
some years ago.

He served as a member of the Santa Fe Playhouse board of
directors and oversaw the theater’s
popular “Benchwarmers” series of one-act
plays.

Among other Santa Fe credits, he appeared in the Santa Fe
Stages production of Death and the Maiden in 2000, Ironweed Productions’
version of Our Town in 2012, and the Lensic Performing Arts Center’s The
Laramie Project in 2010.

He also played roles in a number of television and film
projects over the years, including Swing Vote and Wildifre (both films shot in
New Mexico) and the television series Frasier.

Gerrity and Jeremy Lawrence co-authored the play Melody
Jones: A Striptease in Two Acts, in the early 1990s.

Gerrity was directing a comedic production of A Christmas
Carol — slated to open on Dec. 5 — for the Santa Fe Playhouse. It is unclear
whether the playhouse will still mount the show.

A statement issued Wednesday night by the theater group
said, “Dan Gerrity lit up the stage of the Santa Fe Playhouse for many years
and served as a member of its board for the last six. In that time, he became
the driving force behind the Playhouse’s effort to showcase local writing,
directing and acting talent, primarily through the annual Benchwarmers
production. He brought tenacious intelligence and exuberant poise to all these
efforts, raising the bar — and everyone’s expectations — about what community
theater could and should be.”

Though the Internet Movie Database says that Gerrity was
born in 1958, local sources, including KSFR, report that he was 59.

According to his bio on the website, Gerrity’s work has
been honored by the Los Angeles Drama Critics Circle.

No information about funeral arrangements or memorial
services was immediately available.

Thursday, November 21, 2013

Marta Garcia, host of 'Time' on TVE for 15 years and
voice dubber 'The Big Bang Theory', died Thursday November 21.

The presenter and voice actress Marta Garcia, who gave,
on Spanish TV, weather reports for 15 years died Thursday, as announced on
Monica Lopez’s Twitter, who’s responsible for this area of public television.

"For the team at ‘Time’ TVE today is a painful day.
Monica Garcia has left us. We’ll miss her sweet smile, " tweeted Monica
Lopez in her profile.

Marta García joined the Spanish TV weather information in
1989 and shared the work of reporting with other historical figures as Ana
Roque, Paco Montesdeoca and Jose Antonio Maldonado .

But Marta Garcia's career did not just include talking
about isobars and storms. Perhaps more important was her work as a voice
actress, an occupation that came from her father, the renowned broadcaster
Antolin Garcia, who put Spanish voices to Cary Grant, Alain Delon, and Peter O'Toole
.

Marta Garcia was the Spanish voice of Amy Farrah Fowler
in the series The Big Bang Theory, but also participated in the dubbing of
series such as Falcon Crest, Alf and CSI New York.

Her studies led her to a journalism professional and she
debuted as Top 40 and Radio 80 Gold Series, where she reported the news .

She went on to Spanish TV, where her later works were
linked to the corporate voice and La 2 Clan TV.

Wednesday, November 20, 2013

Abraham ‘Mickey’ Knox, known to all Europena western fans
for writing the English dialogue for “The Good, the Bad and the Ugly” passed
away in Los Angeles, California on November 15, 2013. He was 88. Born in New
York City on December 12, 1921 Knox began his career in show business as an
actor who appeared in several films before being blacklisted. Moving to Italy
to find work, he worked on the English dialogue for “The Good, the Bad and the
Ugly” (1966), “Black Jack” (1968) and “Once Upon a Time in the West” and
appeared in a small role in “Beyond the Law” (1968) with Lee Van Cleef. When
the blacklist ended, he returned to acting, appearing in such films as “Bolero”
(1984) and “The Godfather Part III” (1990). Woody Harrelson's character in
Natural Born Killers was named after him.

Monday, November 18, 2013

He was 46 years-ol, his height was 1.72 and the weight of
78 kilos. His eyes were green, his graying brown hair, normal complexion and
his occupation in Spain was originally of a Telephone Technician. This he said
himself. What Cristobal Garcia never said was that in this life he was an
honest, clean, loved and excited, that person was him.

This last night Cristobal died from a heart attack. So
accustomed to his practical jokes, we thought they were playing it to the last.
Too macabre it was, but Cristobal, a vital and outgoing man, could not wait .

The imaginary reality has returned from his world of
fantasy to the cruel reality. Yes, Cristobal has left us, and he went as he
never used to go to the sites: without a goodbye without a back, because he,
again, always returned.

This time the trip seems to be definitive. It seems, I
say? Seems to say because we are still confusing dreams with reality. We cannot
think of the idea that he’s no longer going to be with us.

These moments are unbearable. The tragedies always hit
with much greater emphasis than reality. This is not, this exceeds all our
imaginations .

Because good men never deserve to die. Because our life
is miserable without them. Because without people like Cristobal life for many
people is meaningless. We miss you, Cristobal. But do not go alone. Take with
yoiu a piece of the dreams of thousands of fans who watched you enjoy life.

Thursday, November 14, 2013

Al Ruscio, an often-seen character
actor who appeared on TV, in films and on stage for more than a half-century,
died Tuesday, his daughter Elizabeth said. He was 89.
Ruscio played the new
restaurant manager at Monk’s whom Elaine (Julia Louis-Dreyfuss) accuses of
employing only buxom women as waitresses (they turn out to be his daughters) in
the 1993 Seinfeld episode “The Pilot”; a casino owner on Showgirls (1995); and
an opera-loving grandfather on the late-1980s ABC drama Life Goes On, the first
TV series to have a major character with Down syndrome
In The Godfather: Part
III, he plays crime boss Leo Cuneo and screams at Joe Mantegna’s character,
“Joey Zaza, you son of a bitch!

Ruscio also played a foul-mouthed
ex-cabbie on Steambath, an early series for pay-TV outlet Showtime; Bonnie
Franklin’s dad in one episode of One Day at a Time; and Elder No. 4 on The
X-Files.

His
film résumé includes Fever Heat (1968), Any Which Way You Can (1980), The Hunter
(1980), Jagged Edge (1985), Guilt by Suspicion (1991), The Silence of the Hams
(1994) and The Phantom (1996).

A native of Salem, Mass., Ruscio moved to
New York and trained for two years at the Neighborhood Playhouse School for the
Theatre. He moved to Los Angeles in 1958 and that year appeared on TV’s Gunsmoke
and then in the Rod Steiger film Al Capone (1959).

In the '60s, Ruscio
created the drama department at the newly formed Midwestern College in Denison,
Iowa. He then served as a professor of acting at the University of Windsor in
Canada and as artistic director of the Academy of Dramatic Art at Oakland
(Mich.) University. Over the years, he conducted workshops with his wife,
actress Kate Williamson.

His book, So Therefore …: A Practical Guide for
Actors, was published last year.

“Every scene or action or speech has a
‘so therefore.’ It is the goal, the ultimate statement of the character. You
should know the so therefore as you begin your scene … The climax and the payoff
is the ‘so therefore.’ ”

Wednesday, November 13, 2013

Luciano Melani an actor, a voice dubber and a director of
dubbing died on November 12, 2013 in Rome, Italy. As a performer on television
he was a member of the cast of the miniseries “The Queen of Hearts”, 1969, in
which he played the role of Callum, and “The Queen of Spades”, 1972, in which
he played the role of Captain Blanco.

At the beginning of his career he was involved in dubbing
and has long been a member of the SAS - Company of Actors, synchronizers and
was later one of the founders of CVD - Cine Video voice actors with so many
other actors. His voice dubbing including Giancarlo Giannini, Oreste Lionello,
Corrado Gaipa, Giancarlo Masters, Jack Nicholson and Clint Eastwood.

Tuesday, November 12, 2013

The writer, daughter of famed filmmaker coahuilense
Emilio "El Indio " Fernández, died yesterday at age 70. Hours before
her death, she asked that her final resting place outside next to her father in
'The Fortress'

By Fernanda Villarreal

Monday, August 19, 2013

Saltillo, Coahuila. - In early August, the writer Adela
Fernández got the ashes of Coahuila filmmaker Emilio "El Indio"
Fernández , which were forwarded to "The Fortress", the house in
Coyoacán where the actor had asked to be her final resting place. Adela, said
her daughter, was able to be with her father again. Adela now rests beside him
in the mausoleum where just a week ago placed "El Indio". That was
her last wish: " Then I get to be with my dad."

The writer Adela Fernandez died yesterday at age 70,
victim of an intestinal occlusion which worsened in recent days, said the
restaurateur and head of "The Fort", Cristobal Gomez Arias. Days ago,
Fernandez was hospitalized after being subjected to surgery due to intestinal
problems it presented. This was made known by her son, Quetzalcoatl Fernandez
who said she was recovering, but still fragile.

Born December 6, 1942 in Mexico City, she lived
surrounded by art world personalities such as Diego Rivera, Dolores del Río and
María Félix. In her career spanning over 40 years produced a total of 11 books,
including a series of monologues and scripts, and also made two short
experimental films and currently was working on the biography of her father and
a documentary about it.

Adela Fernandez began writing answering women’s love
letters sent to her father. It was like it started in the world of literature,
in which his main influences were Juan Rulfo and José Revueltas. She managed
creations like the story "The Cage ENEDINA Aunt," which was chosen by
Gabriel García Márquez as one of the works that everyone has to read.

"Literature is something that I was given, it was
not something I sought," the author said in an exclusive interview with
Vanguard in 2011, during her visit to the 14th International Book Fair
Saltillo.

Participated in surrealist literary games with "Trivia",
"The Exquisite Corpse" and "Automatic Writing", thanks to
the close friendship she had with Leonora Carrington, Remedios Varo and
"the snob" (as she described it) of Gustavo Alatriste. While in New
York entered the literature of Zen Buddhism and continued her biggest
fascination: the esoteric.

Within her works stand carrying out the shorts
"Chiaroscuro" and "Everyday Surrealism", which reflected
the teachings of her father and the legacy that he left.

She published the books "Vago Backbone of Night"
and "Duermevelas" among others, as well as monologues "The
Gravedigger" and "No Sol ... Whither shall look sunflowers?" And
plays like

"The Third Solitude" and "The
Prodigious", with which she received the award for literary excellence of
the work of Spanish women Sor Juana Ines de la Cruz in 1986.

Her writing was described as surreal, others linked with
the Beat Generation and even said she was part of a magical realism, although
at the beginning she describes herself as baroque a

"sucker" in Mexican terms, she said.

The legacy of 'El Indio'

Adela studied acting and playwriting at Film Training
Center and the Universidad Iberoamericana. During her life she taught theater
and toured as a director of various classics.

As daughter of famed filmmaker Coahuila, said she hated
the film for a moment, because she understood the cruel work that her father
performed daily.

"I thought my dad was bad since before the hanging,
the shooting, the men dragged by horses, my dad, spent hours in a chair
shouting 'Action, cut, go back we want perfection', how could he order that?
And the strangest thing was that all these 'dead' got up and went to eat,
"she said in an interview with Ramon Carrillo.

Then she realized the magic that housed the film world. However,
it was her own father, who came to literature, which left that could have
become his profession, cinematography.

"I did not commit myself to the movies because every
time I approached to seek a chance, I was with my dad and I was terrified. But
I became rebellious and like my dad hated the theater, I started doing theater,
he hated bald women and cut my hair. And now that I remember, the more you hurt
me, I laugh the whole ball of crap I did to get his attention, "he told
this newspaper in 2011, when he came to present his book "Hybrid".

This year, a new publication, the author will be
presented at the - now called - Arteaga Book Fair. It is "Sabrosuras of
Death", a copy already failed to promote in this, the land of his father,
who always praised.

Commitment to culture

Meanwhile, Christopher Arias Adela Gomez said yesterday
that she always fought to spread the culture in Mexico. "I always gave
prominence to indigenous people, which is why she worked for many years in the
National Indigenous Institute and published several works for the people of Mexico
know what identity meant," the chronicler of "La Fortaleza".

Gomez said Adela Arias asked be remembered "as a
strong woman who was not intimidated by anything or anyone, who was faithful to
his principles and committed to the culture of Mexico."

He noted that in the last hours of her life she remained
lucid, so inform the writer reached his will: "Keep working, keep
spreading my father, spread my work."

The body of the writer was buried yesterday watched by
friends and family at "The Fort". It is expected that, if confirmed,
on Monday to allow access to the general public paradarle the últimoadiós by a
posthumous tribute .

At the request of Adela, her remains will be cremated and
placed in the mausoleum where for a few days remain those of his father .

"She said, 'then I get to be with my dad'. His concept
of death was very peculiar, he never feared it. Here already Chihuahua family
and close friends, "said Christopher. ( With information from El Universal
and The Informers)

Sunday, November 10, 2013

Mantee acted in many Sci-Fi films and contributed a
column to The Malibu Times for many years.

Malibu Times

By Melissa Caskey / melissa@malibutimes.com | 2 comments

November 8, 2013

Veteran actor and longtime Malibu local Paul Mantee has
died. He was 82 years old.

Mantee's first and most popular claim to fame was a
starring role in the film "Robinson Crusoe on Mars" in 1964. He went
on to appear in countless television shows, including "Mission:
Impossible," "The Streets of San Francisco," "The
A-Team" and "LA Law."

After retiring from acting, the San Francisco native
spent time writing books and contributing to various publications, including a
column in The Malibu Times.

Thursday, November 7, 2013

So dear in Spain and across the Atlantic, in Mexico, her
two homelands today mourn the passing of Amparo Rivelles Ladron de Guevara, who
died at 21:30 pm Thursday at the Hospital Fundación Jiménez Díaz in Madrid at
88 years old .

Granddaughter, daughter, sister and aunt of actorsAmparo Rivelles was the biggest name in a
long line of artists. In August 2012 she suffered the loss of her brother actor
Carlos Larrañaga. This Thursday night, a brief statement was issued by a
representative of the family reporting her death and adding that "her
daughter Maria Fernanda, her grandson, her nephews Larrañaga siblings, friends
Rosa Maria and Peter, as well as her in-laws feel a deeply painful loss and pay
tribute to an actress and remarkable woman."

Rivelles was one of the most important actresses of
Spanish cinema and had, among others, the National Theatre Award and the Award
for Best Actress Goya. Noted for her beauty and unmistakable personality.

She debuted in Barcelona at thirteen on stage in the
company of her mother, Maria Fernanda Ladron de Guevara, with the comedy 'Siete
Hermanas ', Leandro Navarro, and in 1940, at fifteen, she made her first film
appearance in the film 'Mari Juana' by Armando Vidal .

She rose to fame quickly and got an exclusive contract
with the producer Cifesa, for which she made one of her best roles in the 1940s
and 1950s.

Among her most praised of the first stage are 'Eloisa
está debajo del almendro' ( 1943 ) and ‘La fe' (1947), films directed by Rafael
Gil.

She worked with Orson Welles in 'Mister Arkadin' (1954 )
and Tulio Demicheli in 'La herida luminosa' (1957).

She traveled to Mexico in 1957 to perform the play 'Un
cuarto lleno de rosas' with Manolo Fabregas, and what at first was going to be
a short stay, she became a voluntary exile for over twenty years.

While there she continued to make films and theater
appearances and broke into television serials starring in great while doing
other roles followed in Spain. Emphasizes her performance in 'La madrastra',
along with the Soap Opera 'Nuestro Cine' and was considered the best actress at
that time.

On her return to Spain, in 1979, reappeared on the scene
with the comedy of Santiago Moncada,

'Salvar a los
delfines' and then with 'Anillos para una dama' by Antonio Gala. Represented in
1982 'El caso de la mujer asesinadita' by Miguel Mihura, which won the award that
bears the name of the author.

Wednesday, November 6, 2013

Film actor and voice dubber extraordinaire Ted Rusoff
died in a Rome hospital on September 28, 2013. Ted was hit by a car in early
September and died from complications of the accident. He was 74. Ted and his
wife Carolynn de Fonseca, who died in 2009 were long time English voice dubbers
in Rome. Ted was the voice of Klaus Kinski in the 1971 Euro-western "His
Name was King" with Richard Harrison and again for Klaus in "Showdown
for a Badman" also 1971. Born in Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canad on May 20,
1939, he and his wife had been residents of since the late 1950s. Ted had a
Facebook page and was always answering my questions on voice dubbers. He will
be missed

RUSOFF, Ted

Born: 5/20/1939, Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada

Died: 9/28/2013, Rome, Lazio, Italy

Ted Rusoff's westerns - voice dubber:

They Call Me Trinity - 1970
[English voice of Ezio Marano]

Duck You Sucker – 1971 [English
voice of undefined actors]

Four Gunmen of the Holy Trinity
- 1971 [English voice of Umberto Raho]

Tuesday, November 5, 2013

Screenwriter Elinor Karpf-Hager, who with husband-writing
partner Stephen Karpf penned episodes of “The Name of the Game” and Kung Fu,”
as well as the theatrical film “Adam at 6 A.M.,” died Oct. 21 in Moorpark,
Calif. She was 73.

During a career that spanned the late 1960s to the early
1990s, Karpf-Hager also co-penned the TV movies “Marriage: Year One,” “Rolling
Man,” “Gargoyles,” “Devil Dog: The Hound of Hell” and “Letters From Frank” and
the 1976 miniseries “Captains and the Kings.” The Karpfs also created the
daytime drama “Capitol,” which ran on CBS during the 1980s.

The film and theater actor Hans von Borsody died on
Monday October 4, 2013 at his home in Kiel, his agency announced on Tuesday.
Borsody was 84 years old . As a detective, " Cliff Dexter" he drew 1960s
German filmgoers by the millions under his spell. He later starred as Cyrano de
Bergerac’s Urfaust on theater stages and was seen in the war drama "A Bridge
Too Far " (1977). In his decades- long career, the native of Vienna had
never himself in leading.

Hans was born in Vienna on the 20th of September 1929.
His parents were the film director Edward von Borsody and the concert pianist and
violinist , Mary Hochreiter. Early on Borsody came into contact with the film
business. At his father's request, he began training at first as a model but
"He wanted me to learn something decent ," said Borsody on his 80th
Birthday. From 1950 to 1952, he completed his acting studies at the Max
Reinhardt Seminar in Vienna. Borsody was later on stages in many cities such as
Munich, Vienna, Frankfurt, Dusseldorf, Berlin and Hamburg.

Thanks to his first film roles as lovers, young heroes
and outdoorsmen Hans von Borsody quickly made a name for himself. He rode
across the prairie as a Western hero and fought as a "Robin Hood" for
the poor. Later appearances followed on television series such as "Forest
House Sokolov " and "Klinik unter Palmen". His "life role"
was in Cyrano de Bergerac, in Vienna where Borsody played Andernach. "This
role I had dreamed about during my studies."

Hans von Borsody was last seen in the 2013 German film “Der
Meineidbauer”. He is survived by his wife Karin and their two daughters, the
actresses Suzanne and Cosima von Borsody.

Sunday, November 3, 2013

He produced the first season of "The Streets of San
Francisco" and co-wrote the 1969 film "Krakatoa: East of Java,"
an effects-laden film about an erupting volcano.

Cliff Gould, a writer and producer whose credits include
TV's The Streets of San Francisco and the film Krakatoa: East of Java, died
October 19. He was 86.

Gould produced all 26 episodes of the 1972-73 first
season of ABC's Streets of San Francisco, which starred Karl Malden and Michael
Douglas, and received a writing credit on nine installments during the crime
drama's five-season run.

He also created the 1979 NBC secret agent series A Man
Called Sloane, starring Robert Conrad.

Earlier, the Detroit native wrote with Bernard Gordon
Krakatoa: East of Java (1969), a film about an erupting volcano in the late
19th century that starred Maximilian Schell and Diane Baker and earned an Oscar
nomination for visual effects. Gould then penned Macho Callahan (1970), a Civil
War-era movie starring David Janssen.

Gould also wrote and/or produced for such shows as
Rawhide, The Guns of Will Sonnett, Mod Squad, Medical Center, Bracken's World,
Mannix, Cade's County, The Devlin Connection and Scarecrow and Mrs. King.

Gould began his career in radio and as an actor. He moved
to Los Angeles in the 1950s and served as a casting director for 20th Century
Fox.

Friday, November 1, 2013

He appeared more than 400 times in the 1960s and 1970s as
Henry Higgins in " My Fair Lady" on stage at the Dresden State
Operetta. Peter sang and acted and thus was remembered in the hearts of the
audience. He has died at the age of 95 years.

The Dresden actor Peter Herden is dead the Dresden State
Operetta announced on Friday that he died on Wednesday October 30, 2013 at the
age of 95. "The ensemble of the National Opera mourns the death of a great
actor and singer, whose name is inscribed in the history of the opra
house," it said in the statement. Herden from was an ensemble member of
the State Theatre of Dresden since 1949. Since 1963, he had performed several
times at the National Opera. His great popularity was owed mainly to the role
of Henry Higgins in "My Fair Lady," which he appeared in sang a total
of 440 times from 1965 to 1978.

In the GDR premiere of the musical classic, directed by
Fritz Steiner, he stood with Marita Böhme and Maja Rose on stage. Among other
plays Herden could be seen in the gay classic "A Glass of Water" as
Enrico Venutti in the then frequently played musical "Enrico 61" and
Henry St. John. He directed the world premiere of the musical comedy
"Autumn Storm" by Henry Krtschil.

His official farewell to the stage for Herden was in
2000. For the presentation of Willie Clark in Neil Simon's "The Sunshine
Boys" of the then 81 year-old received much applause from the audience.
"My heart and my artistic home was Dresden and the Dresden State Theatre
", he thanked his fans.

2007 saw Herden again at the anniversary gala
"Legends" in the State Operetta in the direction of Wolfgang Schaller
who awarded him an honorary membership of the National Opera.

About Me

Born in Toledo, Ohio in 1946 I have a BA degree in American History from Cal St. Northridge. I've been researching the American West and western films since the early 1980s and visiting filming sites in Spain and the U.S.A. Elected a member of the Spaghetti Western Hall of Fame 2010.